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Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester in North West England. As of March 2020 [update] , Greater Manchester Police employed 6,866 police officers, 3,524 members of police staff, and 560 police community support officers .
RPUs work with the National Police Chiefs' Council roads policing strategy, Policing our Roads Together, [1] which has five strands: Casualty reduction. Counter-terrorism. Reducing anti-social use of the roads. Denying criminals the use of the roads. Public reassurance by high visibility patrolling of the road network.
When a police officer or a member of staff is in a collaborative (multi-constabulary) unit or department (such as the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Road Policing Unit), the PNC code, which is a force identification number, is added to the collar number to prevent confusion between officers; e.g., 41-9999 would indicate a ...
National Highways traffic officer patrol vehicle with some equipment on display at an open house. Traffic officers patrol the motorway network and all-purpose trunk roads [b] in high-visibility patrol vehicles, that feature black and yellow Battenburg liveries, and amber and red rear-facing lighting.
Surrey Police and Greater Manchester Police (GMP) give their Traffic PCSOs (who are part of GMP's Road Policing Unit (RPU)) white covered caps in the same style as traffic police officers. The hat retains though the standard blue band and force crest as other PCSOs in GMP.
A division was the usual term for the largest territorial subdivision of most British police forces. In major reforms of police organisation in the 1990s divisions of many forces were restructured and retitled Basic Command Units (BCUs), although as of 2009 [update] some forces continue to refer to them as divisions.
ANAHEIM, Calif. – In the sweltering days of July, tensions between police and civilians were running high. A cop fatally shot Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, setting off a week of protests. Another police officer fatally shot Philando Castile in a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, while his fiance and her 4-year-old daughter watched.
A Nigeria Police Force officer directing traffic at a busy intersection. One of the oldest and most basic forms of traffic policing is directing traffic. This is conducted by a traffic officer (usually only one) who stands in the middle of an intersection, using hand signals and occasionally also a whistle, a handheld traffic sign (usually a stop sign), or a handheld light stick to manage the ...